64 | Greater London Enterprise Awards 2021 As lockdown eases and people return to the workplace in phases, it is expected that from September 2021, over 50% of employees will continue to work from home. From there it is expected 80% of employees will work from home at least three days a week. Ali continues, “This is the clever bit! We know that leadership is increasingly tasked and measured with tracking the fluctuations within their workforces in motivation, happiness, and productivity. They need a solution, to demonstrate they care about their employees’ wellbeing, and keep their employees engaged in eating well, taking breaks, and exercising. The introduction of our Empower APP/reset button that employees use to select their choice of food and wellness exercise, leaders can keep track and report on the level of wellness, happiness, and motivation within the organisation.” Ali concludes, “While we are aware, there are many brilliant wellness apps on the market; we believe they are not specifically designed to promote healthy eating and mindful breaks at lunchtime. Thus, enabling employees to have better ability to manage their work life balance. Businesses implementing Empower, and making it central to the business wellbeing policy, will have employees who feel valued and more motivated to do the best at work and be more engaged. The increasingly sedentary workday and bad eating habits will be negated. In turn, this will drive productivity and profitability. It will also drive reputation, as employees at companies that support wellbeing initiatives are more likely to recommend their company as a good place to work. Empower does tick all the boxes.” Words by POW Food Company: POW FOOD, Ali Warburton Email:
[email protected] Website: www.powfood.co.uk Telephone: 0345 340 5397 From corporate to SME businesses, many company leaders and those in HR roles are increasingly tasked with finding solutions to tackle the resetting of the new work-life balance, to challenge the increasing sedentary side of working from home, to motivate their employees to full wellness, and to actively discourage some of the time-short, bad eating habits that may well have formed during the pandemic. POW Food, Winner of Best Healthy Food Catering Service 2021, might just have the answer. It is recognised that many employees don’t leave their desk, especially when working at home, and may well feel guilty taking a lunch break. • According to Allwork, workplaces that don’t support wellness reduce productivity by 17.5%. • In Oracle 2020 findings, 35% of remote workers say they’ve been putting in significantly more hours since the pandemic started. POW Food has created the solution: it’s called EMPOWER, a one-stop shop for company leaders that encourages employees to reset and to take a meaningful break. Empower is specifically tailored to nourish and nurture by offering time-efficient, effective, and fun workouts and mindfulness techniques with every nutritious meal. Founded by CEO Ali Warburton and her daughter Emily Warburton, Head of Sustainability, POW Food is the first impact-driven Wellness Food Company offering delicious, nutritious food for workplaces and homes. Emily enthuses, “We aim to encourage leadership to bring back the lunch hour, to actively encourage employees to take a meaningful break. We provide an easy-to-use solution for employees to nourish themselves with nutritious food and encourage wellness ‘move and mindful’ solutions at lunchtimes. Our aspiration is to assist employees to eat well, reduce stress and anxiety. We have introduced Empower. We work with our nutritionists and wellness/fitness specialists to ensure our Empower workplace offerings help support performance and mental clarity, as well as the physical benefits of energy and wellbeing.” POW Food provides employees with tasty ready meals, handmade, with 100% natural ingredients designed by their master nutritionist. The ready meals require no preparation enabling employers to free up employees in their lunchtimes. Delivery is nationwide, once a week, once a month, and there is a range of options and choice. All Best Healthy Food Catering Service 2021 packages are delivered in compostable packaging, temperature-controlled, carbon-neutral transport, anywhere in the UK. Ali explains, “ Our ethos, at all times, is to provide creative catering solutions for UK companies, large or small, in delivering nutritionally designed, delicious food that encourages employees to eat healthier meals, stay well and be more productive. We are passionate about revolutionising the way we eat at home and at work through high-end meal planning and delivery; we care about what people eat, where it is sourced, and how it is produced. We work to support companies to encourage their employees to eat healthy meals and break poor habits. Poor habits that may well have formed through working from home in lockdown, leading to a more sedentary lifestyle, and ordering too much take away food.” Why is EMPOWER a reset tool for company leaders and their employees? • EMPOWER is a subscription-based model enabling employers to create a core “reset hour” in their employees working day. • EMPOWER allows and encourages employees to step away from their work and take a midway break, to lead a less sedentary workday • EMPOWER provides ways to maximise that break to help “reset” and “refocus” for a productive second half of the day. How does EMPOWER educate teams on how to eat well? • EMPOWER includes an offering of highly nutritious varied meals with exceptional parity, Nationwide • EMPOWER provides a constant stream of clever nutritional tips enabling time short employees to eat smart • EMPOWER encourages engagement amongst teams • EMPOWER experience is proven to encourage teams to communicate more as it creates common ground with both POW Food ready-meals and mind and body experience. Aug21859